On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Jack Phoenix jack@countervandalism.net wrote:
I'm trying to build an autocompletion thingy that suggests categories based on user input using the opensearch API [1].
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HotCat
How can I totally strip out the "Category:" part and pretend it doesn't exist and never did?
Hit api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces to get the localized name of the Category namespace. Or you should be safe just removing everything up to the first colon.